The bodies of four Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convicts were handed over to their respective families for the last rites on Friday after the post-mortem conducted at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on same day.
The convicts were executed at 5.30 am at Tihar prison.
According to Sandeep Goel, Director General of Tihar Jail, the bodies were kept hanging for half an hour, a mandatory procedure after execution as per the prison manual.
"After the doctor examined the bodies and declared all 4 dead, they were sent to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for the post-mortem. Later, their bodies were handed over to their families," said Goel.
According to a senior jail official, the body of Akshay will be taken to his village at Aurangabad in Bihar. "The family members of Mukesh will take his body to Rajasthan. The bodies of Vinay and Pawan will be shifted to their houses at Ravidas Camp in south Delhi," he said.
Earlier, their family members rushed to DDU hospital for the necessary paper works before conducting the post-mortem. There were elaborated security arrangements inside the hospital, specially near the mortuary. No person, except the hospital staff and the relatives of convicts, was allowed near the mortuary.
This is the first time that four men have been hanged together in Tihar Jail, South Asia's largest prison complex that houses more than 16,000 inmates.
After raping and brutalising Nirbhaya, the men, one of whom was a juvenile at the time, dumped her on the road and left for dead on the cold winter night. Her friend who was with her was also severely beaten and thrown out along with her.